" Ton cannot live alone," said a clergyman's dying wife in Philadelphia, to her husband. "Choose a cheerful woman and teach her to love our children." And he went away and married a red-haired sister. She became co cheerful to him and the children that they dodged at everything they saw, and there would be occasionally a notice pasted on the church door like this: "No service here to-day." And the red • haired sister would sit in the front room with her feet resting on the fender, and chew gum, while she thought sadly of the wear and tear of the rolling-pin and wonder when there would be another donation pai ty which would furnish her a new one. And he was in the back room, looking sadly at a photograph of his first wife, with his head tied up in a wet towel, while the children were learning the catechism under the bed.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2884, 14 May 1878, Page 2
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153Untitled Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2884, 14 May 1878, Page 2
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